Recommended Reading

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authors to advertise (without cost) their relevant books, white papers, academic articles, research findings and so on, so that all our members can know about the thought-leadership, considered
opinion and analysis that is available through their work. If you would like to submit a piece of your own work, or the work of another that you would recommend to our members, please get in touch
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Books To Read...

Other People’s Money

John Kay

21 Apr 2016

We all depend on the finance sector. We need it to store our money, manage our payments, finance housing stock, restore infrastructure, fund retirement and support new business.....

Rethinking Reputational Risk

Anthony Fitzsimmons &

Prof Derek Atkins

3 Jan 2017

A company's reputation is one of its most valuable assets, and reputational risk is high on the agenda at board level and amongst regulators. Rethinking Reputational Risk explains the
hidden factors....

The Long and the Short of It

John Kay

1 Dec 2016.

This book provides a guide to the complexities of modern finance. It describes the basics of investment and the sophisticated innovations of the modern financial system. It explains how the
follies of finance have threatened the stability of the world economy.....

Phishing for Phools

George A. Akerlof and

Robert J. Shiller

22 Aug 2016

Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning
economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller deliver....

The End of Alchemy

Mervyn King

9 Mar 2017

The past twenty years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. In the space of little more than a year what had
been seen as the age of wisdom....

“Swimming with Sharks: My Journey into the World of the Bankers”

Joris Luyendijk

17 Sep 2015

Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant
to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector....

What They Do With Your Money

Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik and David Pitt–watson

6 May 2016

A call to reboot capitalism and preserve $85 trillion in retirement savings for their owners-not for use as the financial industry's ATM Each year we pay billions in fees to those who run our
financial system. The money comes from our bank accounts, our pensions, our borrowing....

Transparency Games: How bankers rig the world of finance

Mr. Richard G Field

25 Mar 2015

This is the story of how bankers with help from the members of Wall Street’s Opacity Protection Team (this includes politicians, economists, think-tanks, rating firms, investment charter
constrained asset managers and the financial regulators) undermined the global financial system by reintroducing opacity....